It's all over. Voldemort has been slain and the battle is finished. Finally, everyone who fought so long and hard for peace can have it. It is the summer of 1998, the end of July, and Harry Potter is celebrating his 18th birthday. In just a few short months he will join Hermione Granger and many others in the ranks to become Aurors. After the loss of Fred Weasley, Ron has chosen to run WWW with George. The casualties are being mourned and Hogwarts is being rebuilt. Everyone is ready to move on.

But when strange things begin occurring, the wizarding world can only hope the events are not tied together. Members of society, both important and mundane, are being kidnapped, robberies are happening much more often then they should, and rumors are starting to fly. Is it all simply coincidence? Solitary events that occasionally fall into a regular pattern? Or is it the start of something more?

You'll just have to see what happens as the light of hope, lit such a short time ago, begins to fade.

http://www.s9.invisionfree.com/thesweetestnightmare/It’s not about Hogwarts anymore. In the real world people have been dying left and right. Real people, good people, who we’ve known and trusted our whole lives. It’s not about Harry Potter; it’s about us as a community, as a society even. Dumbledore’s been dead three weeks and already we seem more lost than we were at the height of You-Know-Who’s terror. I’m scared, just like you are, like we all are. But there comes a point where we have to acknowledge the fear, and acknowledge what’s going on. Is our Ministry strong enough to save us? Who knows? We don’t know how many of them there are, what they really want from us, or who they’re going to kill next. All we know is that it’s not about some kids up in a school; it’s about us, the people. This is a war on us and our families, not someone who’s just a name in our past.

-- A Concerned Citizen.

The Sweetest Nightmare takes place in the year 1997, picking up where the Half-Blood Prince left off. The trio are heading out into the world to search out the Horcruxes, leaving Hogwarts and the safety it provides behind. The Order of the Phoenix is rallying together, ready to combat the growing strength of the Death Eaters. Voldemort plots and plans, preparing to take on the world. The Ministry searches for a way to boost the morale of the people, but is slowly becoming a national laughing stock.

It’s not about the kids anymore, it’s about the world. Your world. Play a role in the war, you decide the outcome.